Bentall Centre (Vancouver)

The Bentall Centre is a 1.5 million square foot[1] office complex and underground shopping mall, located in Downtown Vancouver's financial district.

[3] Tenants include: Macquarie Group, TECK, FM Global, Gowling WLG, Teekay, Harris & Company, Fasken and Hillcore Financial.

On January 7, 1981, four carpenters – Donald Davis, Gunther Couvreux, Brian Stevenson and Yrjo Mitrunen – were killed while constructing Bentall Four.

[citation needed] Anthes Equipment Ltd was the company that designed and supplied the fly forms to the contractor building the tower.

Anthes Equipment Ltd of Toronto was not registered to be working in BC at the time of the accident; leaving them liable to civil action.

[4] One of the widows; Carol Davis, individually filed a writ on February 19, 1982, in the Supreme Court in an unprecedented action against Anthes Equipment Ltd.